4 J* 1 i«» «. :. fSfi INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX fc. REALLY NO PROBLEM AT ALL IN THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES! GOOD INCUBATION HINTS Case Presented to the Great Sheerluck CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE One Will No Longer Wonder Why Oui Bones Hardly Worthy of His Follow the manufacturer's directions Forefathers Gladly Entered Into Wonderful Brain. in setting up and operating STRIKE Bonds of Matrimony. ORDERS REPRESENTED an incubator. It was the office of the famous detective, See that the incubator runs I have lately been shown (writes a Mr. Sheerluck Bones. steadily at the desired temperature correspondent of the Manchester The visitor, a man of rather small before filling it with eggs. BY THESE SEALS? Guardian) the first account book of a height but liberal width, sat down. Do not add fresh eggs to a tray couple who set up housekeeping nearly "Married!" snapped Bones, containing those which are undergoing fifty years ago. Many of the entries "How do you know I'm married?" incubation. are interesting reading now, and ga'sped the visitor. Turn the eggs twice daily after certain items especially are warranted "By the samples of silk to be the second and until the nineteenth to make the modern housekeeper's matched in your vest-pocket, and your day. Turn them before mouth water. The first servant's hunted, haunted, expression," replied caring for the lamps. Cool them wages for instance, were £8 ($40) a Sheerluck. once daily, according to the iwas year—a servant, too, 1 was given to The man gasped. weather, during this period. understand, who did all the washing, "It is marvelous how you know Attend to the machine carefully plain cooking and evidently had none things!" exclaimed the man. "But it at regular hours. a is about my wife 1 came to see you. Vr=U of her successors' objection to children, 0/ Keep the lamp and wick clean. She acts so queeriy lately. She talks for in due course she added to Test the eggs on the seventh to herself all the time, stands before her duties that of pushing the baby and fourteenth days. her mirror and talks to herself. It's carriage out every afternoon. It is Do not open the machine after awful! And she does the most terrible worthy of note that the bedroom for the eighteenth day until the •4^ things. She'll put a cake of this treasure was furnished entirely chickens are hatched. soap in the soup and scrub the pans at a cost of £2 10s ($12.50). Food with the soup bone, talking to herself prices, unfortunately, cannot be readily all the time." compared with those of today, as C.p by BEST TIME TO CUT C0WPEAS And the poor man wiped his brow provisions were entered simply as •itju i/i't-riCec-^o! nervously. "grocer, butcher, etc." But what "How long has this state of affairs should we feel now, 1 wonder, on receiving Most Desirable Quality of Hay Produced been going on?" asked the great detective. Ful|- a (winter) quarter's gas bill if Cut When Pods Are WART DISEASE HITS amounting to 9s 4d ($2.33).'Vlt is interesting Grown and Matured. "Oh, for about a week now. And, to see that butcher's meat Mr. Bbnes, I can't stand it any longer. As a rule cowpeas should not be ROOTS OF TOMATOES bulked far more largely in proportion It's driving me crazy. I'm afraid she'll cut for hay before the pods begin to than it would in household books today, sell the baby for a bundle of rags, or turn yellow. The best quality is produced K^POU after the frugal years of war, something." and the hay cures most readily and that the young couple considered "H'm! Er, isn't it just possible if the vines are cut when most of the Snjury Probably Does Not Reduce food of another sort worth paying for that your wife is merely practicing pods are full grown and a considerable is shown by the entry: "Two tickets and rehearsing her speech for the Yield of Fruit. number of tliem are mature. At for concert (Patti and Sims Ileeves), next meeting of the National Women's that stage of growth none of the best £1 10s ($7.50). Rulers of Home leagueV 1 see its hay varieties will have dropped their meeting takes place tomorrow night." leaves and the plants will have practically Affected Plants Segye to Carry Ailment "PANTS" PROVED HIM HONEST "By Jove! You're right. She is attained their full growth. Over From Year to Year in third assistant chairman of that Absence of Potatoes—Other Their Frayed Condition Convinced league. I forgot it!" IMPORTANCE OF FARM DIARY Plants Suspected. Tailor That Man Who Wore With a relieved cry, the little man Them Must Be Straight. rushed home, and even forgot. In his l3nited Preoared by the States Depart­ Among Other Things It Will Prevent glad relief, to pay the great detective's zS&i ment of Agriculture.) It pays to advertise one's poverty, Paying Same Bill Twice }f fee.—London Answers. Recent investigations made by the a certain statesman thinks. Record Is Made. United States Department of Agriculture A tailor in the last campaign was on the control of the potato wart Long Life for a House Fern. quite convinced in his own mind that A farm diary may save paying the In the living room of an Oxfordshire disease, a European trouble found in the statesman was a most unworthy same bill twice, since it may be used this country in 1918, disclosed the fact (England) country house is a and absolutely unfit man for public as a record of all credit business done that this disease also attacks tomatoes. maidenhair fern that has just celebrated position, as a result of the campaign by the farm. Specialists of the United in Out of 28 varieties of tomatoes planted its fifty-sixth birthday. It is conducted against him. States Department of Agriculture suggest in wart-infested gardens in eastern now some two feet across and very About ten days before the election that blank pages in the back of Pennsylvania in 1920, 26 were found to fine, fresh and young in complexion. one of the bell boys of a Washington the diary be used for such accounts. be susceptible to the disease. A year or two ago it seemed to be club brought to this particular tailor Wart is a very serious disease of potatoes, falling into the sere and yellow leaf —by mere chance—a pair of trousers causing practically a total loss belonging to the statesman, to be and was threatened'with its first illness. Break. Says Hearts Really In badly infested soil. It attacks tb» pressed. It was a hurry-up job, being But after consulting with a Poets and romance writers for ages tubers, causing warty outgrowths, local specialist the owner (who has the only pair that the statesman have been on firm ground when they The PRESS JOB DEPARTMENT has a cot of which may practically cover or consume had at the time. The tailor started tended her plant herself for 56 years) nave pictured broken-hearted swains the potatoes. Its present known pressing them and to his amazement gave it a dose of cod liver oil. The and maidens. each one of the above and is prepared to tur&out occurrence in the United States is con- discovered that the trousers were hrownness that threatened to invade According to Dr. Strickland Goodall, badly frayed at the edges and worna'nd the whole plant soon disappeared under a note heart specialist, it is a physiological letter heads, envelopes, and cards, and aif showed other evidence that the the treatment, and it is now as tact that hearts do break. But owner was apparently not spending vigorous and as green as ever. This lie ssjiys. joy and not woe or hard work vertising with the seals here shown. his money for elegance in clothes, maidenhair has. therefore, not only is more frequently the cause of a whereupon he announced he was for lived 56 years, but is still in the broken heart. In his long experience bim. he has found that emotion rather than stage of active growth and development. "I am with him from this day forward," hard work has been responsible for he said. "Any statesman who broken hearts. is forced to wear clothes for so long "Don't get into a temper." says Dr. a time as these have been worn is Goodall, "because it increases the surely a square and upright man and heart's work by seventy-two foot I am for him to the limit." pounds. Running upstairs is foolish, because the increase is 152 foot Down Goes the Prices on Goldfish In Ohio River. pounds. If man spends oifc day in Many tons of goldfish were caught bed weekly he saves his heart 998,400 in the fishing grounds of the Portage HAY AND FEED foot pounds." river at Port Clinton, O., recently. According to some of the fishermen, the first scattering of the fish was found Declared Nature Exempt. in 1913» after the big floods of Ohio There is another story told by Pro and the lake regions, and it was fessor Roerich which results in the hesirer asking for assurance of its thought at that time that the fish may truth, which is given. It seems that have been liberated from some of the park and resort aquariums, by the certain enthusiastic revolutionists in overflowing of the flooded artificial authority in Moscow decided that a ponds. highly decorative and significant effect The fish are not of the glass bowl could be produced by painting the variety, but seem to be more of a carp grass and the trees about the government species, and will measure several buildings in Moscow a bright =UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE= inches and weigh as much as a halfpound red. Orders were given and the government each. They are placed in cars painters set themselves industriously Is Much Satisfaction in Producing There and brought here to be loaded into express to work giving an appearance Tomatoes of the Finest Quality. cars and shipped in tanks, alive, to the official vegetation which we to the New York markets, where they commonly attribute to growth on the lined to gardens in a few mining villages are sold to the retail and wholesale Mars. Whereupon the startled in Pennsylvania, West Virginia trade. workingmen and soldiers of the city and Maryland, from which its spread t:'«rched through the streets and made is restricted by state quarantine laws. soVmn protest against painting the St. Paul Is Exonerated. The disease attacks only the stems and uves and grass of the city red. Their Men translated the Bible—and roots of the tomato plant, causing wishes in the matter were respected twisted St. Paul's remarks about small warts it probably does not reduce women to suit their own ideas. That and nature was relieved of the necessity the yield of fruit. is divulged by Miss K. Raleigh to the of subscribing to the soviet code The importance of the discovery of —Christian Science Monitor. Women's Freedom league. $1.40 the susceptibility of tomatoes to potato The apostle's remarks about women. wart lies in the fact that affected tomato OATS—80 pound sack she said, were badly twisted in plains will serve to carry the disease Insistent Hostess. translation and it could be proved by $1.50 over from year to year in the absence Eight-year-old Ruth was having her the removal of a few dots and commas. of potatoes, and to introduce it first party. Before the guests came BRAN—per 100 pounds that St. Paul did not: Forbid into new localities through the transplanting mother gave her a long talk on the $1.50 women to preach command them to of tomato seedlings grown in duties of a hostess, and told her to obey their husbands insist that forever infested soil. It is not yet known definitely be sure that every one was served SHORTS—per 100 pounds and aye. whatever the fashion whether all varieties of tomatoes with all the refreshments. And Ruth $2.00 of the country, they should wear hats are susceptible to the wart disease, but promised. in church say that they should never it is feared that such may be the case. But among the guests was one little GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds.. wear jewelry and fine clothes. Other plants belonging to the potato miss who was very shy. She didn't $2.00 "In the sentence 'Women obey your family are suspected of being susceptible play any of the games, she didn't con husbands,'" said Miss Raleigh, "the to wart, and some of these have verse, and when the ice cream was WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds... correct translation of the word 'obey' teen tested, but with inconclusive reKults. brought forward refused to take any $22.00 is 'be considerate to.'" These tests will be repeated. Then Ruth came over to her. "You _________________ TIMOTHY HAY—per ion... :mist eat some," she insisted, offering A Yellow Peril. her another dish of cream. $17.00 O MM 4 Can you read your laundry mark? T. The little visitor shook her head MM «V Philip Terry, author of "Terry's Guide 1 CAR UPLAND per ton "I don't want any," she persisted. PROFESSIONAL CARDS to Japan," tells the following joke on "But you must eat it." Ruth insisted himself—a joke which emphasized the "You must eat it even if you have O «.« M«* +V 4 3 CARS NO. 1 TIMOTHY HAY advisability of keeping on good terms to throw it up afterward." with one's Chinese laundryinan. The JOHN H. BROWN Chink in Mr. Terry's home town was Use Care in Handling Powder. Attorney at Law inclined to be surly so one day the Opening a wooden keg of black guide book writer lectured him on the Office over O. M. Carr & Co. blasting powder with a wooden tool subject of courtesy, and urged him to International Falls* Minnesota might appear to be the safest of methods, adopt civility as a habit. The admonition yet the United States bureau of palpably displeased the celestial, A E mines calls attention to a number of but he said nothing. Later Mr. Terry, who lived several years in China serious accidents resulting from the Lawyer practice. The habit in many places and knows something of the language, International State Bank Bldg. N has been to drive a hardwood spllte was surprised to find his shirts The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. l¥' International Falls, Minnesota and collars marked with the Cantonese through the head of the keg. ami in Jjf hieroglyph signifying "upstart jackess." several instances the ignition of thf powder has directly followed. Th* f't' N O E N I N N E S O A ... '. cause remains unexplained, though O S I A Sounds and Sights. any one of a number of actions may Phone 81 International Falls, Minn. "That motion picture theater has he responsible. Because of the deuioivstruted Dr. B. F. Oaburn, Physician and beautiful music," danger, it is recoipinended Surgeon Charge "Yes," rejoined Miss Cayenne. "At that powder he extracted' from its & Office Phone St Hospital Phone 79 present we listen to the picture and kegs only by way of the biiughole. Office Intl State Bank Building '•ok at the musical show." even if mone time is required.—Popular. International Falls,/r Minnesota ... Magazine.